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2008 Customer of the Year Kimberly Royal August 13, 2008
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Kimberly Royal -- APRO's 2008 Customer of the year -- is a case manager at the Judge Dennis J. Boll Group and Shelter Home -- an "incarceration-to-home life" transition facility for local adolescents in the region -- where she has worked for the past 24 years.

Known as "Miss Kimmy" by the boys and girls with whom she works, Royal regularly leverages her positive relationship with Countryside Rentals to fill gaps in her budget and make life a little more tolerable at the shelter.

She began her relationship with rent-to-own around 30 years ago when she was forced into the role of single mother tasked with raising a four-year-old and an infant when her husband left town after taking all the furniture and destroying the refrigerator.

It was then a local church learned that Royal did not have enough food for her family at Christmas. The church gave her $100 worth of grocery items; It was a gesture she would never forget.

Since that time, Royal has set aside money from her own paycheck to provide for under privileged families during the holidays. Today she has recruited the support of four other families in the community who all contribute to a fund that makes Thanksgiving and Christmas meals happen for over 10 Lawrence County families each year.

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